Leave a copy on server option

                If you download your mail from a POP account, Outlook Express will usually delete it immediately after retrieval. This has the advantage that the chance of incoming mail clogging up your account is pretty slim.

But leaving mail at the server (at least for some time) has advantages, too. You can re-retrieve accidentally deleted messages, or download mail to a different email client.
Leave a Backup of Mail at the Server with Outlook Express.

To leave a copy of downloaded mail at the server with Outlook Express:

    * Select Tools | Accounts… from the menu.

 
    * Highlight the desired email account.

 
    * Click Properties.

 
    * Go to the Advanced tab.

 
    * Make sure Leave a copy of messages on server is selected.

 
    * Click OK.

 
    * Click the Close button. 

 These steps can be followed for Outlook Express installed in Windows XP, 2000, 98 etc

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Removing mail account: Outlook Express

                In this article we see how to remove a configured Email account  from Outlook Express. This article will be useful at times example: If somebody told you your IMAP account were screwed up and that you had better headed for a fresh start?  if you have set up an account two times by accident?

Whatever the motivation, deleting an account from Outlook Express is always easy. If you just need to change your email address and account details (such as the server name and port), you can also modify an existing account, of course.

Steps to be followed to remove an Email Account from Outlook Express.

To delete an email account from Outlook Express:

    * Select "Tools" | "Accounts"... from the menu.
        

 
    * "Highlight the account" you want to delete.

 
    * Click "Remove".

 
    * Click "Yes".

 
    * Now click "Close".

These steps can be followed for Outlook Express installed in Windows XP, 2000, 98 etc

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Block email from domains

                Outlook Express make it easy to block messages from a particular email address. If you are looking for a broader approach,thru this article you can learn how to block Messages from a Domain in Outlook Express.

Domain blocking can be done if your concerned about spam mail, chain mails etc. If you need more security from particular domain you can try this article.

Steps to block an entire domain in Outlook Express :

    * Select "Tools" | "Message Rules"   from the menu.         

    * Go to the "Blocked Senders" tab.

    * Click "Add"....

    * Type the domain name to block.

    * Click "OK".

    * Click "OK" again.

These steps can be followed for Outlook Express installed in Windows XP , 2000, 98 etc.

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Set default Email account: Outlook Express

              When you reply to an email, Outlook Express automatically put the email address to which the original message was sent in the From: field. When you create a new message in a folder that belongs to an IMAP account, for example, Windows Mail automatically puts the account's address in the From: field.

You cannot change that. But you can change what happens when you click Create Mail while in your Local Folders Inbox. Or which address is in the From: field by default when you click on an email address on a web site. You can change the default account.
 

       In this article we will walk thru the steps to set the Default Email Account in Outlook Express so that you no need worry of sending wrong "From" address to your recipients.

How to:

To make an email account the default in Outlook Express:

    * Select "Tools" | "Accounts"... from the menu.

 
    * Highlight the desired "Account".

 
    * Click "Set as Default".

 
    * Now click "Close".

These steps can be followed for Outlook Express installed in Windows XP, 2000, 98 etc

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Remove address from Blocked senders list

                     Everybody can change their mind now and then. Maybe somebody got on your list of blocked senders in Outlook Express by mistake.  Whatever the reason, now you want to unblock them. This is easy is when it come to Outlook Express.

In this article we are going to  learn how to unblock the email address from your blocked senders list. This steps quit easy to perform and you can make changes to your blocked senders list easily.

Remove an Address from Blocked Senders in Outlook Express:

Steps to allow a sender's messages back to your Outlook Express:
        

•     Select "Tools" from menu and go to "Message Rules" 

•     Now go to "Blocked Senders List" from the drop down menu.

•     Highlight the sender (or domain) you want to remove.

•     Click "Remove".

These steps are common for Outlook Express installed in both Windows XP, 2000, 98 etc

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View Email source in Outlook Express

               Normally, you are more interested in an email's text than its source. But sometimes, taking a look at the source can be interesting, or necessary.Especially when something does not work right, the message source can often lead to a clue what went wrong, and the source often reveals a spammer's ISP, too. 

Fortunately, Outlook Express offer a smart shortcut that brings up a message's source quickly.

 
Steps how to view a Message's Source in Outlook Express:

To view the complete source of a message in Outlook Express:

    * "Open" the message.
    * Press "Ctrl + F3".
Steps how to view a Message's Source Without Opening the Message Itself in Outlook Express:

To see the source of a message you don't need to open in Outlook Express:

    * Click on the desired email in the message list with the "right mouse button".

 
    * Select "Properties" from the "menu".

 
          o If your message is in an IMAP account, you may first have to download it in full:
          o Click on it with the "right mouse button".
          o Select "Download Message Later" from the menu.
          o Select "Tools" | Sync or Tools | "Send and Receive" from the main Outlook Express menu and select your "email account" from the list. 

 
    * Go to the "Details" tab.

 
    * Click "Message Source".

These steps ca be followed for Outlook Express installed in Windows XP , 2000, 98 etc

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Email priority feature in Outlook Express

           I'm sure some of the emails you write in Outlook Express are very important. There is a way to let the recipient know: you can assign a message priority to the messages you compose in Outlook Express. Of course this also works for messages that have low priority.
 

  In this article Our Texpert has explained changing Message priority in Outlook Express with simple and easy steps.

Steps to set the priority of a message you compose in Outlook Express:

•     Use the Set Priority toolbar button.

•     It shows an arrow pointing down and an exclamation mark.

•     Clicking the button itself will toggle between normal, high and low priority.

•     Alternatively, use the button's drop-down menu.

•     Select from it High, Normal or Low Priority.

If you prefer the menu or do not have the button in your toolbar, select "Message" | "Set Priority" from the Outlook Express message composition window menu and then your desired message priority. These steps can be followed for Outlook Express installed in Windows XP, 2000, 98 etc

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Changing default start up folder

                  By default, Outlook Express starts with a "home page". This page looks a bit dated, has redundant links, and you probably find yourself clicking through to your Inbox immediately every time you start Outlook Express.
 

Our Texpert has explained how to start Outlook Express in your inbox with quite easy and simple steps. you can perform these steps on your own.

You may want to open Outlook Express in that Inbox automatically without going through the home page.

•     Select Tools | Options from the menu in Outlook Express.

•     Go to the General tab.

•     Make sure When starting, go directly to my Inbox folder is selected.

    The next time you launch Outlook Express, it will open your Inbox automatically and save you some valuable time.These steps can be followed in Outlook Express with Windows XP, 2000, 98 etc

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Enable Auto reply: Outlook Express

               When you are away from your computer and your email account, who will reply to all those emails? Outlook Express will do it for you. it does not exactly have your type of spontaneity and quick response, but if you have a permanent internet connection and can leave your computer running at your home or home office, it will send a canned reply informing people you are out of the office.

         you will include in your automatic replies when you expect to be back and replying in person so your contacts can adjust their actions. Our Texpert has explained in quick and easy step to set up a Vacation Auto-Response in Outlook Express

Steps to create an automatic out of office message in Outlook Express:

•     Open Notepad.

•     Type the message you want to appear in the body of your autoresponse.

•     Select "File" | "Save" from the menu.

•     Type "Vacation Auto-Reply" under File name:.

•     Make sure "Text Documents (*.txt)" is selected under Save as type:.

•     Click "Save".

•     Close Notepad.

 

•     Open Outlook Express.

•     Select "Tools" | "Message Rules" | "Mail"... from the menu.

•     Go to the "Mail Rules" tab.

•     Click "New"....

          Make sure Where the To or CC line contains people is checked under Select the Conditions for your rule:.
         

       Alternatively, you can check For all messages. It usually makes sense to reply automatically only to messages sent directly to your email address, however.
    

•     Under Select the Actions for your rule:, check "Reply with message".

•     Click on the "contains people" link under Rule Description.

•     Type your "email address".

•     Click "Add".

            * If you have more than one address, repeat the previous two steps.

•     Click "OK".

•     Now click the "message" link, also under Rule Description.

•     Select "Text (*.txt)" from the Files of type: drop-down menu.

•     Highlight the "Vacation Auto-Reply" file.

•     Click "Open".

•     Under Name of the rule:, type something like "Vacation Auto-Reply" as well.

•     Click "OK".

•     Click "OK" again. 

These steps can be followed for Outlook Express installed in Windows XP, 2000, 98 etc..

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Disabling Splash screen: Outlook Express

            

            Every time it starts up, Outlook Express greets you with a splash screen. Of no particular interest, it is not necessary to see that Outlook Express splash screen more than once.While there is no option within Outlook Express to turn the splash screen off, you can remove it via the system registry.

           Our Texpert has explained a easy and quick registry tweak to turn off the Outlook Express Splash Screen in this article. please note changing incorrect registry values may lead application or computer to halt. so please take a backup before you you make changes to registry.

Steps to turn off the splash screen when starting Outlook Express:

•     Select Run... from the Start menu.

•     Type "regedit" (without quotes).

•     Press Enter.

          * Expand down to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\­Identities\­(Your Identity)\­Software\­Microsoft\­Outlook Express\­5.0.

•     Select Edit | New | DWORD Value from the menu.

•     Type "NoSplash".

•     Hit Enter

•     Double-click NoSplash.

•     Enter "1" as the value in the dialog box.

•     Close the registry editor.

These steps can be followed for Outlook express installed in Windows XP, 2000, 98 etc.

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Creating Vcard in Outlook Express

                            Although "Business Card", the term used in Outlook Express, seems to suggest it, a vCard is not just for business. its your contact information sent to recipient where he can save with contact information in Vcard
 

The Usefulness of a vCard

A vCard is a generally useful thing containing contact and directory information that anybody can import in their address book easily. If you send a vCard with your emails in Outlook Express, the recipient can simply add this vCard to their address book and instantly has access to all your email addresses, phone numbers, street addresses, your birthday (depending on how much of all that information you are willing to give away).

Steps to create a Business Card (vCard) in Outlook Express

Creating a vCard in Outlook Express amounts to creating an address book entry. So to create a vCard for yourself, you need to add an address book entry for yourself in Outlook Express:

•     Select Tools | Address Book from the menu in Outlook Express.

•     Click on New | New Contact.

•     Enter all the information you want included with your vCard.

•     Click OK.

That's it, you have just created a vCard for yourself in Outlook Express.Include Your vCard with Every Message. Now make sure the card is attached to outgoing emails you compose in Outlook Express. These steps can be followed for Outlook Express installed in Windows XP, 2000, 98 etc

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Creating Rich text signature

                If you send your emails using rich HTML formatting in Outlook Express, the signature does not have to pale in plain letters beside the rest of your message.

Using HTML in your signature is not as straight forward as setting up a plain text signature, however. It is not even as easy as using HTML formatting in the rest of your message.

This is because HTML signatures in Outlook Express are outsourced and offshored to external files. But don't panic, here's how to do it. All you need is some basic HTML knowledge, though you'll do fine even without that.

 
 Steps to use rich formatting in your email signature in Outlook Express:

•     Create the signature's HTML code in your favorite text editor.     

•     Save it to an ".html" file in your My Documents folder.

•     Select "Tools" | "Options"... from the menu.

•     Go to the "Signatures" tab.

•     Highlight the desired "signature".

•     Make sure File is selected under "Edit Signature".

•     Use the "Browse"... button to select the signature HTML file you have just created.

•     Click "OK".

•     Test your new signature.

 These steps can be followed for Outlook Express installed in Windows XP, 2000, 98 etc

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Multiple signatures for diffrent accounts

                       Signatures are great fun in Outlook Express. You can set up as many as you want, and they can sport a good look or images even. Of course, Outlook Express can insert a default signature into every email you write automatically.

 
But how about when different Emails demand different Signatures?

But as the emails you send differ some are sent from your work account, some for fun, and some you craft as a special mailing list persona , so should your signatures. By default, and automatically.

  you can assign each account in Outlook Express a default signature that will be used in preference to the overall default signature. A reply sent to a message received to your work account can bear the work signature, for example.


Steps to choose the default email signature for a particular account in Outlook Express:

•     Select "Tools" | "Options"... from the menu.

•     Go to the "Signatures" tab.

•     Highlight the desired signature under "Signatures".

•     Click "Advanced"... under "Edit Signature".

•     Make sure all the email accounts for which you want the highlighted signature to be the default are checked.

•     Click "OK".

•     Click "OK" again.

 These steps can be followed for Outlook Express installed in Windows XP, 2000, 98 etc

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Color code mails in Outlook Express

              Do you access multiple email accounts in Outlook Express? Are the messages in one account consistently more interesting, more urgent and more important than those from another account?

       To distinguish between messages received at your various email accounts at once glance of an eye, you can make Outlook Express colorize the emails according to the accounts through which they were received. Our Texpert has explained steps to color-code mail from a particular account in Outlook Express.

Steps to highlight mail from a particular account in a certain color in Outlook Express:

•     Select "Tools" | "Message Rules" | "Mail"... from the menu.

•     Click "New"....

         * If you have not previously set up message rules, the new rule editor comes up automatically.

•     Make sure "Where the message is from the specified account" is checked under Select the Conditions for your rule:.

•     Under Select the "Actions for your rule:", check "Highlight it with color".

•     Click the highlighted and underlined specified in the "Rule Description".

•     Select the desired account.

•     Click "OK".

•     Now click on the highlighted color in the "Rule Description".

•     Choose the "desired color".

•     Click "OK".

•     Type a name for your filter that will help you recognize it under "Name of the rule":.

•     Click "OK".

•     Click "OK" once more.

These steps can be followed for Outlook Express installed in Windows XP, 2000, 98 etc 

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Remember password: Outlook Express

                     Remember and typing the passwords for all the web sites, accounts, email accounts etc is a great exercise in memory created through repetitive typing.

But typing the password to your email account every time Outlook Express checks for new mail, that's a bit too much. Outlook Express can remember and send the password for you, which makes checking for new mail an even more great experience (although you should in general still strive not to do it too often).
 

Make Outlook Express Remember Your Email Account Password

Steps to make settings for Outlook Express to remember the password to your email account:

•     Select "Tools" | "Accounts"... from the menu.

•     Highlight the desired email account.

•     Click "Properties".

•     Go to the "Servers" tab.

•     Type your password under Incoming Mail Server | Password:.

•     Make sure "Remember password" is checked.

•     Click "OK"

These steps can be followed for Outlook Express installed in Windows XP, 2000, 98 etc

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printing currently composing email

 

 

 

 

          In Outlook Express, it is not possible to print a new message that you are currently composing. There simply is no Print command in the File menu. You can, however, work around this shortcoming in Outlook Express.

   

              you may need to print email which you have composed and want a hard copy for records before you send because it might be some important information. In this article our Texpert has explained a quick and easy workaround because "Print" option is not available in new message window.

Steps to print a message you are currently composing in Outlook Express:

•     Select "File" | "Save" from the menu in the message you are composing.

•     Open the "Drafts" folder in Outlook Express.

•     Highlight the message you just saved.

•     Make sure the "preview pane" is "enabled".

•     Select "View" | "Layout"... from the menu.

•     Make sure Show preview pane is checked under "Preview Pane".

•     Click "OK".

•     Select "File" | "Print"... from the menu.

After printing the message, just continue editing the message in its window. After you have sent the message, it will be deleted from the Drafts folder automatically. These steps can be followed for Outlook Express installed in Windows XP, 2000, 98 etc

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Printing mail in large font: Outlook Express

                           Tiny type and feeble fonts are common among email clients. Fortunately, most software is designed to adapt to its user, and so you can easily increase the display size of fonts while reading mail in Outlook Express.

Why Outlook Express Prints Using Tiny Fonts?

     printing the message that shows big and legibly on screen may lead to an unpleasant surprise: when printing, you seem to be stuck with Outlook Express' tiny fonts, no matter how much or little you increase the display font size.

      This is only partially true. Because Outlook Express hand over the email to Internet Explorer for printing, you can configure the printing's result by changing the font size used by Internet Explorer, both for display and for printing.

 
Print a Message in a Larger Font in Outlook Express

Steps to use large font for printing a message in Outlook Express:

•     Launch Internet Explorer.

•     Select "Page" | "Text Size" (or "View" | "Text Size" if you have no Page toolbar icon) and the desired font size from the menu in Internet Explorer.

•     Preferably set it to the same size you used for the message in Outlook Express.

•     Print the message in Outlook Express.

            Of course, you can return the font size in Internet Explorer to its previous setting once the printing is done to your satisfaction and these steps can be followed for Outlook express installed in Windows XP, 2000, 98 etc with Internet Explorer 6,7,8 etc

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Printing email with background image

                  when you send somebody a wonderful email using good stationery, they can see the glory on the screen, but if they want to print it, the background image is gone and much of the email's grace with it. What can you do?

            If the recipient uses Outlook Express, there is a way to make it print background images. Outlook Express use the print settings of Internet Explorer, and Internet Explorer does not print background images by default because they usually waste a lot of ink while making the printout hard to read. This default can be changed (if only to print an email), though.

Print an Email Including Background Images in Outlook Express

Steps to print a message with its background images in Outlook Express:

•     Open an Internet Explorer window.

•     Select Tools | Internet Options... from the toolbar (or Tools | Options... from the menu).

•     Go to the Advanced tab.

•     Make sure Print background images and colors is checked under Printing.

•     Click Apply.

    Open the message you want to print in Outlook Express.

•     Select File | Print... from the menu.

•     Choose your options and click Print.

    Optionally, change the Print background images and colors back to the off default in Internet Explorer and these steps can be used for Outlook Express installed in Windows XP, 2000, 98 etc

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Creating new Signature: Outlook Express

                              Email signatures are great, just great. You can put some basic contact information in your Outlook Express signature, but it can also contain a witty quotation or some good information or thought etc.

 
              In Outlook Express, you can have multiple signatures (one for work mail and one for private messages, for example). creating signatures is easy and simple our Texpert has explained steps which can be performed on your own.
 

Steps to set up your email signature in Outlook Express:

•     Select "Tools" | "Options"... from the menu.

•     Go to the "Signatures" tab.

•     Click "New" under Signatures.

•     Type the text of your signature under Edit Signature.

                Try to limit your signature to 4-5 lines of text, and possibly use the standard signature delimiter.

 
                   This field is for plain text only, but you can also enrich your signature with HTML formatting.

•     Click "OK".

These steps can be followed for Outlook Express installed in Windows XP, 2000, 98 etc

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Spell check for part of Email

                              Do you check the spelling of the emails you compose in Outlook Express? You can have Outlook Express do that automatically when you send a message, and there is a big Spelling button in the toolbar, so doing it regularly is no problem.

But what if your message contains parts that you know to "wrong", for example — in the language used for the rest of the message and for spell checking? Then you can employ the Outlook Express spell checker only for the desired parts. In this article our Texpert has explained hot to check the spelling of only a part of a Message in Outlook Express with simple and Easy steps.

Steps to check the spelling of just a portion of a message you are composing in Outlook Express:

•     Highlight the part of the message you want to check .

•     Press " F7 Key ".

             *  you can also click Spelling in the message's toolbar.

•     When done, click " No " to void checking the rest of your message as well. 

These steps can be followed for Outlook Express installed in Windows XP, 2000, 98 etc

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